Dakota Mayi Johnson was born Oct. 4, 1989.
And he or she’s been rolling with that Hollywood life ever since, making her film debut in 1999’s Loopy in Alabama (starring her mother and directed by her then-stepdad Antonio Banderas) earlier than increase steam below her personal title with the Fifty Shades saga, A Greater Splash, The way to Be Single, Suspiria and Madam Internet.
She has stated that she finds the nepo child dialog “extremely annoying,” primarily as a result of going into one’s household enterprise is fairly commonplace.
“I began auditioning,” she recalled in 2025 to Materialists costar Pedro Pascal for Elle. There have been dry spells after which, sure, “I’d need to ask my dad and mom for assist,” she shared. “I’m very grateful that I had dad and mom that would assist me and did assist me. But it surely definitely was not enjoyable. The auditioning course of, as you realize, is the f–king worst.”
Melanie and Don divorced in 1996, however she stays near them, her stepmom, her ex-stepdad and all of her half-siblings—who’re merely brothers and sisters to her, full cease.
“I used to be raised by numerous individuals, my mother and my dad after which stepparents and nannies and tutors and buddies and academics after which buddies’ dad and mom and boyfriends’ dad and mom,” Dakota advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I wished to be taught from everyone. And I nonetheless am like that. I’m grateful to my dad and mom and my loopy life as a result of the one motive I’m the way in which I’m is due to how I grew up.”
